From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27? Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 23:51:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83y3bc2378.fsf@gnu.org> <73c02cbb-888f-478c-a231-923aa43c093e@default> <49b5540d-4bee-3d2e-e629-2a8d8e75ee18@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1538970657 12712 195.159.176.226 (8 Oct 2018 03:50:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 03:50:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 08 05:50:52 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g9MZI-0003Bx-Fq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 05:50:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44392 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9MbP-0001zY-2T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 23:53:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37499) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9MZf-0001Qk-F9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 23:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9MZe-0003jj-NG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 23:51:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54621) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9MZY-0003Y3-3m; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 23:51:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1g9MZX-0006eu-Tq; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 23:51:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49b5540d-4bee-3d2e-e629-2a8d8e75ee18@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sat, 6 Oct 2018 09:17:07 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:230280 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] We can make any change in Emacs Lisp syntax that we decide to make, but incoherence with the spirit of Lisp will lead to trouble. The spirit of Lisp is not something that can be precisely defined, but experienced Lispers will mostly agree about what it says. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)